Light screen for windshields



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Patented May 8, 1923,

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titties RICHARD A. WHALL AND EUGENE B. BISHOP, OF ATHOL, MASSACHUSETTS.

v LIGHT SCREEN F01 "WENDSI-ZIELDS.

a portion of the glass of the wind-shield between the drivers eyes, and a source of light such as the sun, or the headlights of an approaching automobile, and thus prevent interference with the drivers vision by glaring light rays shining directly on his eves.

U The object of the invention is to provide a neat and attractive screen of. simple and inexpensive construction, adapted to be engaged in different positions with a windshield frame, and to remain in any position to which it may be adjusted.

The invention is embodied in the improvements which we will now proceed to describe and claim.

Of the accompanyingdrawings forming a part of this specification,-

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a screen embodying the invention, portions of the body sheet being broken away.

Figure 2 is a section on line 22 of Figure 1, and a sectional view of a portion of a wind-shield.

Figure 3 is a. section on line 3-3 of Figure 1.

Figure 4 is a plan view of the blank from which the body sheet and the hook sheaths are made.

The same reference characters indicate the same parts in all of the figures.

Our improved screen includes a substantially' U-shaped frame composed of a length of wire bent to form a transverse neck portion 12, two substantially parallel spaced apart arm portions 13, connected by the neck portion, and hooks 14 at the outer ends of the arm portions. The portions 12 and 13 partially bound :1. space which is filled by a body sheet 15 of any suitable sheet material, such as enameled cloth, marginally secured to said portions, preferably as hereinafter described. The hooks 14 are covered by pocketed sheaths 16, which are preferably of the same material as the body member,

and inte ral therewith. said sheaths 0011-;

cealing the hooks 14L Qand, presenting yie'ld ing inner surfaces, adapted to frictionally engage portions of the upper horizontal men'ibcr 17 of the frame of a. wind-shield, and permit the screen to be adjusted by slidinp; it edgewise along; said. member, the frie tional engagement retaining the screen inany position to which ,it nay be adjusted. In practice the screen is hung" with its body sheet 15 at the front side of the windshield.

The body sheet 15 and sheaths '16 are preferably formed from a blank of the contour shown by Figure f, said blanks having a transverse'flap 15?" at one end, longitudinal flaps 15 at its opposite, longitudinal edges, andspaced apart sheath-forming extensions atits opposite end, said extensions'including' portions of the flaps 15 The flap15 is folded over the transverse neck portion 12 of the frame, the flaps 15" are folded over the arm portions 13, and the extensions are folded over the hooks let, the edges of said extensions meeting at theinner sides of the hooks.

sheet'15, and the meeting edges of the'e'xtensions are secured to each other, by stitches 18 arranged as shown by Figure ,1, so that pockets are formed entirely enclosing the Thefiaps are secured to the bodyframe portions l2and 13 and the hooks 14:. I

15 atthe endof the bodysheet between the extensions, and fold the same against the body sheet, and secure it by stitches 19, thus forming a finished folded transverse edge 20. A mirror 21, shown by dotted lines in Figure 2, may be attached to the inner side of the body sheet; to enable the driver to see reflections of obiects behind his vehicle,

The operation of folding the flaps 15 and.

15 over the neck portion 12and the arm portions 13, forms finished folded edges at the outer sides of said portions, so that the body sheet 15 presents four finished Y folded edges, three .of which are formed by folding the flaps 15 -and 15 and the fourth by folding the flap 15".

raw or cut edges of the material .beingcon- Said folded edges impart a neat appearance to the screen, the

cealed excepting atthe inner edges of the sheaths. The form of the body sheet is such that the quantity of material required therefor, is reduced to a minimum.

We claim:

A light screen adapted to be suspended and moved edgewise on the top member of a. wind-shield frame and comprising a sub stantially ll-shaped metal frame, the upright parallel, members of which terminate in hooks, and a flexible body sheet having top, bottom and sidefiaps, the side flaps being folded about the upright members of the frame and secured to the body of the sheet with tieir upper ends extending beyond the upper edge of the body sheet and folded and secured about the hooks on the frame, the 15 bottom flap of the body sheet being folded and secured about the bottom frame member and the upper edge flap of the sheet extending between the side flaps and being folded an d secured directly against the body of the sheet as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof We have affixed our signatures.

RICHARD A. WHALL. EUGENE R. BISHOP. 

